You got your marriage certificate and then abandoned me? I'll feed the richest woman in the wor

"Clang!"

The heavy brass latches fell, locking the two gilded doors of the Crown Hotel's rooftop banquet hall firmly in place.

The piercing metallic scraping sound, like a death knell, severed the last physical connection between the banquet hall and the outside world.

Dozens of fully armed Blackwater security personnel drew their riot batons and surrounded the entire hall with menacing expressions.

The pale blue arc of electricity crackled and popped in the air.

The socialites and ladies huddled trembling under the long table beneath the crystal chandelier, covering their ears and forcibly suppressing even their gasps.

William stood behind the security line and tore off the silk handkerchief he had used to wipe the bloodstains off his leather shoes.

He casually tossed it onto the face of the bodyguard who was still convulsing in excruciating pain.

That face, which had maintained its aristocratic dignity, was now completely distorted, revealing a desperate madness.

"You're really good at fighting, aren't you?"

William pulled a miniature signal jammer from his pocket and slammed it heavily onto the tall table next to him.

The finger bones turned white due to excessive force.

"But this is my territory! The entire venue's communication network has been cut off! No one can call the police; you have no chance of escape!"

William pointed at Shen Wanzhou, his eyes bloodshot.

"Since you won't listen to reason, then don't blame me! Even if you swallow that equity transfer agreement with an 80% discount today, I'll have someone cut open your stomach and take out your fingerprints!"

Shen Wanzhou sat in a chair in the corner.

She swallowed the piece of lobster meat that Chen Yuan had cut.

Faced with this tense situation, her fingertips didn't tremble even slightly.

"Physically cut off the signal?"

Shen Wanzhou pulled out a tissue to wipe the corner of her lips, her cool gaze passing through the crowd and landing on the signal jammer flashing red.

"Has the Rothschild family's heritage degenerated to the point of resorting to such low-level gangster tactics?"

"Any means necessary to win!"

William grinned maliciously and roared into his headset, "Family Technology Department, listen up! Within three minutes, I want all the core data of Starry Sky Venture Capital's overseas branch to be completely blocked by your firewall!"

Within this so-called information cocoon, William believed he was in control of everything.

As long as we control Shen Wanzhou and force her to sign the agreement, what does it matter if Chen Yuan is a killing machine?

Once the agreement is uploaded, Star Ventures' multi-billion dollar empire overseas will instantly change hands.

In the corner, the light remained dim.

Chen Yuan ignored the Blackwater security guards who were closing in.

He slowly unbuttoned the top two buttons of his suit jacket and pulled out a custom-made, pure black cell phone from his inside pocket with one hand.

There are no extra buttons; only a line of green cursors flashing on the screen.

"Three minutes?"

Chen Yuan's slender fingers hovered over the screen for a second.

A mocking smile curled at the corner of his lips, as if he had heard a joke that wasn't funny at all.

"Your firewall, which you are so proud of, is not even qualified to be a wastebasket in my hands."

His thumb slammed heavily on the screen.

"clatter."

There was no earth-shattering sound.

A single, unseen command, transmitted through the wristwatch on Chen Yuan's wrist that connected to the quantum computer on the Pacific Ocean's seabed, directly tore apart the frequency band of the miniature signal jammer.

one second.

The miniature signal jammer emitted a plume of black smoke and became completely unusable.

two seconds.

The entire internal network system of the Crown Hotel building was forcibly hijacked.

three seconds.

"Buzz—"

The giant LED screen in the center of the banquet hall, which occupied an entire wall and was playing a boring symphony background, suddenly started flickering violently.

Everyone instinctively looked up.

The originally melodious classical music was forcibly cut off.

Instead, a waterfall of green code scrolled wildly across the screen.

"What...what is this?"

William's eyes widened, his nails digging into his palms until they bled.

In the gaps between those codes.

High-resolution scanned confidential documents were slammed onto the screen in a visually striking manner.

In April 2023, $200 million of Mexican drug cartels' money was laundered through offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. The person in charge was William Rothschild.

[In January 2024, William Rothschild was implicated in the manipulation of the stock prices of three North American pharmaceutical companies, illegally profiting from the market.]

[Appendix: List of high-class escorts used by William for illicit financial transactions at Las Vegas casinos, along with transaction records.]

Dozens of top-secret files, enough to send William to federal prison until his bones turn to ash.

It was so blatantly and unreservedly exposed to the very eyes of all of New York's top celebrities.

The entire banquet hall fell into an even more deathly silence than when the bodyguard's wrist had been stabbed.

Those old money guys who originally wanted to see Shen Wanzhou make a fool of herself were now pale-faced and shrunk to the corner as if avoiding a plague, afraid that they would have even the slightest connection with the name on the screen.

"Turn it off! Turn it off right now!"

William has gone mad.

He rushed to the control panel in the corner and frantically smashed the power switch.

But the large screen seemed to be welded shut, relentlessly scrolling through his sinful secrets.

"Who...who are you?!"

William turned his head, pointed at Chen Yuan, his eyes bulging, his voice distorted with extreme fear.

"How could you possibly crack the family's highest-level firewall in three minutes?!"

Chen Yuan put his phone back in his suit pocket.

He grabbed a wet wipe and carefully wiped away the fingerprints remaining on the screen.

"Your firewall, which you are so proud of, doesn't even have half a line of useful code in my eyes."

Chen Yuan raised his head, his emotionless eyes coldly staring at William.

"The Eagles taught you that in the face of absolute dimensional reduction, any so-called information cocoon is just a grave you've dug for yourselves."

Just then.

"boom!"

The two gilded doors, which were locked with bolts, were forcibly blasted open from the outside using directional explosives.

The air was thick with the smoke of gunpowder.

More than a dozen fully armed senior FBI agents rushed in, carrying riot shields and automatic rifles.

The infrared aiming points were densely packed onto the chests of William and the Blackwater security personnel.

The detective in charge, expressionless, took out handcuffs and waved them in front of William.

"You have the right to remain silent, but we have already downloaded and backed up everything you just showed on the screen."

"No...this can't be true! I am the heir to the Rothschild family!"

William was pinned to the ground by two agents.

The cold handcuffs gripped his wrists.

He struggled on the expensive carpet like a dying dog, his gorgeous bespoke suit stained with dust and other people's blood.

Just a moment ago, he was an arrogant young master from a wealthy family.

In the three minutes it took Chen Yuan to move his finger, he was completely ruined.

Chen Yuan did not go to watch the farcical arrest.

He took off his suit jacket and gently draped it over Shen Wanzhou's shoulders to block the cold wind blowing in from outside the door.

"Can you still walk?" Chen Yuan bent down, his voice so gentle it could melt your heart.

He was completely different from the monster who had just caused chaos and bloodshed on the dark web.

Shen Wanzhou looked at the mess on the ground, the broken wine glasses, and William being dragged away.

She felt no pleasure whatsoever from avenging her great grudge.

I find this kind of despicable tactic disgusting.

She stretched out her hand, adorned with a simple wedding ring, and gently rubbed her brow, which had become sore from being constantly tense.

"Chen Yuan".

Shen Wanzhou's voice sounded tired.

"It's too noisy here, I want to eat king crab."